US government shutdown averted hours before deadline https://t.co/sWaZjjj1pD
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) December 3, 2021
Congress averted a government shutdown Thursday evening when both chambers voted to pass a stopgap bill to extend funding through mid-February after party leaders brokered a deal to overcome GOP brinkmanship over vaccine mandateshttps://t.co/VGZ9Qaicny
— CNN Breaking News (@cnnbrk) December 3, 2021
The House just averted a government shutdown.
— Adam Schiff (@RepAdamSchiff) December 2, 2021
This continuing resolution will ensure that we uphold our promise to workers, families, veterans, and seniors.
And it will allow us to stay focused on passing critical legislation like expanding child care and improving health care.
Not in this Republican Party. https://t.co/zb7hLQZkVc
— pastajoe (@pastajoe5) December 2, 2021
People close to McConnell are saying he’s *furious* that some of his senators are trying to force a shutdown.
— Angry Staffer (@Angry_Staffer) December 2, 2021
They’re confident he can convince them it’s a bad idea politically, but I’m not so sure. The GOP is a serially unserious party. https://t.co/XZQRB1lngA
The bar to be an elected politician has gotten so low after Trump that we are seeing people like MTG, Boebert, and Ronny Jackson get elected to Congress and now this quack wants in on some of that sweet action after seeing how easy the grift is https://t.co/lJ89THadqq
— Bread & Circuses 🍞🎪🎪 (@FeasterFamine) November 30, 2021
"If it feels lately that everything is Fyre Fest, maybe it is. Manipulation is everywhere," writes @janicemin https://t.co/EHTOyXuNyA
— TIME (@TIME) December 3, 2021
Republicans are the kid I sat next to on the bus in 2nd grade, who came to school in a t-shirt on a freezing-cold day. "It's not cold. It's hot out," he said indignantly.
— Outraged Against the Machine (@SpicemanG) December 2, 2021
Tim Ryan is one of the few elected officials who is (appropriately) publicly furious at the GOP all the time. Wish there were more officials willing to speak out like this. https://t.co/BvSX8iBl1x
— i am eating a sandwich right now (@the_blt_enjoyer) December 2, 2021
Wear a fucking mask, get your fucking vaccination and convince more of your shitbag, deadbrained, selfish followers to do the same. That'll thwart Biden's evil plan, you useless, gibbering demagogue. https://t.co/jqVPnuVNtb
— David Simon (@AoDespair) December 2, 2021
Today's news:
— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) December 2, 2021
Senior Trump official taking the 5th about the attempt to overturn the election.
GOP senators fighting to make it more difficult to stop the spread of COVID.
Biden needn't say this, but other Democrats can: The Republican Party is pro-insurrection and pro-COVID.
The asymmetry where Republicans weren't bound by the filibuster in building this Supreme Court but Democrats are bound by it in legislatively responding to its rulings will prove devastating if Democrats don't change it.
— Ezra Klein (@ezraklein) December 2, 2021
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There are safe seats, and then there is Old Bexley and Sidcup
7.4% is the biggest increase in the Labour vote (exactly the amount by which the Labour vote fell at Batley & Spen in July) in any by-election since the GE exceeding the 6.5% rise in Labour's share of the vote at Airdrie and Shotts on 13 May –
— Arthur_S (@allanholloway) December 3, 2021
To put Bexley result in perspective: Tory vote of 51% is nearly 10pp higher than in the 1997 general election, when Ted Heath polled only 42%. Tory majority over Labour also three times higher as a share of the vote . That’s in a by election, when oppositions surge, if they surge
— Andrew Adonis (@Andrew_Adonis) December 3, 2021
'The contract itself was in excess of £40 million?'
— LBC (@LBC) December 2, 2021
Matt Hancock's pub landlord: 'That's a matter of public record.'@mrjamesob: 'What was your turnover the previous year?'
Matt Hancock's pub landlord: 'Just under a quarter of a million.'
Read more: https://t.co/a20XJ3Chbv pic.twitter.com/pcWBpIah2q
Matt Hancock keeps saying that Labour donors also won PPE deals.
— Sam Bright (@WritesBright) December 2, 2021
I’ve been studying PPE deals religiously for 20 months and remember *maybe* one or two deals linked to Labour donors.
By contrast, dozens of deals worth £3.5 BILLION have been awarded to Tory mates and donors.
Why is Matt Hancock staging a comeback and why are the media entertaining it? He is a bin fire of mismanagement and corruption, he’s not ABBA.
— Michael Spicer (@MrMichaelSpicer) December 2, 2021
Good news for Matt Hancock https://t.co/bLkWMqVrVB
— Hannah Jane Parkinson (@ladyhaja) December 3, 2021
All you need to know about the Tories having a Christmas party in Downing St while canceling your Christmas plans. https://t.co/Bb3THEWe70
— benhunt 🇬🇧🇪🇸🇪🇺 (@benhunt) December 3, 2021
Both the Mail and Express have run headlines telling their ageing readers that the World Health Organisation says #omicron cases are 'mild'. Here's what the WHO actually said. pic.twitter.com/6Ze1SGaIDJ
— Andrew Cooper (@AndrewzCooper) December 3, 2021
If anyone needs cheering up today Nigel Farage's anti-cancel culture conference has been cancelled.
— Katy (@KatyJayne101) December 2, 2021
Trafalgar Square Xmas tree provided by ToryTrees (Cayman) Ltd a company founded by a Tory donor & paid for by Tax payers at 25M pounds
— Alex 🇪🇺#FBPE 🚩 💙#FBNHS #GTTO #JohnsonOut (@Alexverycalm) December 2, 2021
Minister defends its appearance by saying it shows the state of new Global Britain, A weak, discredited, nation which wont last till Christmas. pic.twitter.com/7fvh7vhZMA
UK and EU chief Brexit negotiators to meet for Northern Ireland talks https://t.co/VzXjGrnt4s
— BBC Politics (@BBCPolitics) December 3, 2021
The US will delay its deal to remove tariffs on UK steel & aluminum over Northern Ireland issues.
— Dr Mike Galsworthy (@mikegalsworthy) December 2, 2021
The US imposed 25% and 10% tariffs on steel and aluminum imports on the EU in 2018. The tariffs were withdrawn in Oct this year, but they remain in place for UK due to Brexit. https://t.co/FYSRqByps0
The EU did not invade Ireland. The EU did not partition Ireland. The EU did not blow up 200 roads crossing Ireland. The EU did not use 30,000 troops to maintain its border in Ireland. The EU did not ask for Brexit. The EU is not responsible to find solutions for brexit.
— Irishmonk (@castlvillageman) December 1, 2021
Finally…
Farewell to #AngelaMerkel
— Brendan May (@bmay) December 2, 2021
A dignified departure with tributes from all sides, befitting of a calm, sober, intelligent, internationalist leader committed to citizenship, culture, science, Europe, and the less fortunate.
We desperately need that here.
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In her farewell address, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said, "resistance must be loud" when scientific facts are denied and conspiracy theories are spread. pic.twitter.com/xA8YIFLZN2
— DW News (@dwnews) December 2, 2021
The Overnight Note 